James Lawless (Kildare North, Fianna Fail)
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118. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress of the new national digital strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13293/21]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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The Programme for Government commits to developing a new National Digital Strategy which will utilise the increased level of national connectivity that is being delivered by the National Broadband Plan.Preliminary work, co-ordinated by the Department of the Taoiseach, had been undertaken on a draft strategy in the lifetime of the previous Government and the experience of Covid-19 has only emphasised the importance of digital technologies to people’s daily lives.

It is anticipated that further work on digitalisation will be undertaken as the plans for economic recovery are developed and lessons are learnt from how Irish society has deployed and relied upon digital technology during the pandemic.